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Some useful links to other websites that may interest you.
For ConsumersFor Health Professionals
For Research and Evaluation Community
For Consumers
- Arthritis Australia
- Arthritis Foundation of NSW
- Better Health Channel
- Beyond Blue (National Depression Initiative)
- Cancer Council Australia
- Combined Pensioners' and Superannuants' Association of NSW Inc (CPSA)
- Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
- Consumers Health Forum of Australia
- COTA Over 50s
- Council of the Ageing (COTA)
- Diabetes Australia
- Federation of Ethnic and Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA)
- Fight Flu Campaign
- Health Consumers of Rural and Remote Australia (HCRRA)
- HealthInsite
- myDr
- National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (NACCHO)
- National Heart Foundation
- National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA)
- PBS Online
- Staying Healthy in Child Care - Preventing infectious diseases in child care - Fourth Edition
For Health Professionals
Drug information and guidelines
- Australasian Cochrane Centre
- Australian Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin
- Australian Consumer Medicines Information and Approved Product Information
- Australian Medicines Handbook
- Better Health Channel, Consumer Medicines Guide
- MedLine (via PubMed)
- Expert Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (EAGAR)
- MIMS
- New Zealand Guidelines Group cardiovascular risk calculator
- Therapeutic Guidelines
- Therapeutics Letter, Therapeutics Initiative
- USP Drug Information
Government medical information
- Program Review and Integrity
- National Medicines Policy, Policy on Quality Use of Medicines
- PBS Portal
Online learning in QUM and prescribing
- PBS and You — Online PBS Education for New Prescribers
- PriMeD-Online — PBS Education For Experienced Prescribers
Journals
- American Family Physician http://www.aafp.org/afp
- Australian Prescriber http://www.australianprescriber.com
- British Medical Journal http://www.bmj.com
- Journal of the American Medical Association http://www.jama.ama-assn.org/
- Medical Journal of Australia http://www.mja.com.au
- New England Journal of Medicine http://www.nejm.org
- The Lancet http://www.thelancet.com
GP organisations
- Australian Divisions of General Practice
- Australian Medical Association (AMA)
- National Divisions of General Practice
- National Information Service of the General Practice Evaluation
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
- Rural Doctors Association of Australia
Pharmacy organisations
- Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
- Pharmacy Guild of Australia
- Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
For Research & Evaluation
Compendium of Australian QUM Projects
- QUM Map This is a comprehensive map of current major quality use of medicines (QUM) initiatives in Australia. The QUMmap provides information on existing resources, expertise and complementary work for people working in the QUM area. Quality Use of Medicines Research Centres
Quality Use of Medicines Research Centres
- Centre for Medication Safety, Victorian College of Pharmacy
- Monash University
- Centre for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, University of North Carolina
- Centre of Research in Patient Safety
- Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Womens Hospital, USA
- Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of SA
- Health Informatics Research & Evaluation Unit, University of Sydney
- Unit for Medication Outcomes Research and Education (UMORE), University of Tasmania
- University of Queensland, School of Pharmacy
- Veterans' Mates
- Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
- Population Health and Use of Medicines Unit (PHUM), University of NSW
